Sabini

See also: sabini

Italian

Proper noun

Sabini m pl (plural only)

1. Sabines

Anagrams

• Basini

Latin

Etymology

From Sabus, eponym of the Sabines, Italic tribal name from Proto-Italic *saβnōs, *saβn-iyo-, *saβnyom- (compare Oscan 𐌔𐌀𐌚𐌉𐌍𐌉𐌌 (safinim)), from an uncertain Proto-Indo-European root, possibly *sabh-o, *sₑbho- (“one's own”), from *swé (“self”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /saˈbiː.niː/, [s̠äˈbiːniː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /saˈbi.ni/, [säˈbiːni]

Proper noun

Sabīnī m pl (genitive Sabīnōrum); second declension

1. A tribe of Central Italy, who inhabited the central chain of the Apennines

Declension

Second-declension noun, plural only.

	plural
nominative	Sabīnī
genitive	Sabīnōrum
dative	Sabīnīs
accusative	Sabīnōs
ablative	Sabīnīs
vocative	Sabīnī

References

• “Sabini”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Sabini in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Sabini”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly